Incredible Hulk Figures out / Review

[Nivek]

From www.Action-Figure.com

Found these at Wal-Mart tonight. Everything was on the shelves & pegs including the new Hulk hands, face mask & Super Hero Squad. Obviously someone in the stock room didn't read the May 1st label on the box. Frankly I don't understand why Hasbro has these "do not sell" dates anyway. Sure it's cool if you're planning a midnight sale party at Toys R Us, but of course some stores are gonna put them out early, and how sad would it be if some 8 year old who really wants this stuff has to be told he's not allowed to buy them. And just by looking at them it's obvious these are geared towards kids. Painfully obvious, but more on that in a moment.

Of course they both rang up "Do Not Sell" at the checkout, but since there was a long line of disgruntled shoppers and no manager in sight the cashier entered the code manually so I paid for them and left with no incident.

Overall I'm disappointed in them. The Iron Man movie figures impressed me but these are too much out of scale for the $9.99 retail. The poseability is nice enough, although the joints seem a little loose on both characters. Like I said these are going to appeal more to (young) boys than collectors. I believe I read where deluxe versions with their human counterparts are coming later this year for $14.99, and if so I'd recommend waiting for them. Unless you want a Hulk to go in scale with your Star Wars figures 'cause that's really the only scale he measures up in. The comparison shots tell the story on that.

PS, I also scored some of the new Indiana Jones figures a week early and they're loaded with 100% awesomeness!

So there you have it...apparently Hulk sad because he as tall as puny banner. Sad sad hulk. I guess most of us will be waiting for the Fin Fang Foom build a figure line that's jam packed with Marvel Legends Hulk characters. On that same note, I thought I should mention that the Batman: Dark Knight figures are in the back rooms of Walmart as well, awaiting some miserable teenage stock boy to set them free. Go get em' champ!!

Thanks again to Gollum, who literally just took a bullet for us.

Pretty much what I figured from the pictures. It is disappointing, but what can you do.

 

[The Hulk]

meh, im still getting every single piece of hulk merch. size is means nothing to me when i only collect hulk. just means they take up less room on the shelf dedicated to them.

 

[Showtime]

Sounds like the awful Superman Returns figures.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Hmmm. I was hoping the Hulk figures would be a little larger than the Iron Man figures. Oh well.

 

[ironwez20]

why are they freakin 5inches, uhh looks like we have a spidey 3 deja vu i hated those figs

 

[Spade]

These figures look bad. The articulation is pretty poor, Abomination doesn't look accurate, and the scale really pooch-screwed the detail.

 

[HULKFish]

meh, im still getting every single piece of hulk merch. size is means nothing to me when i only collect hulk. just means they take up less room on the shelf dedicated to them.

LOL! This sounds VERY familiar... I don't only collect HULK though.

 

[Nivek]

You guys complain about Low Quality, but still buy it. Funny.

 

[HULKFish]

Well, you wait for the movie stuff to come out and then... I guess you still feel the need to get something! REALLY pissed about the scale! Not to mention the paint is pretty bad, no descent wash.

I do remember them saying early on though not to worry about the movie line, that the Legends line would make it up for the collectors. Looks to be true so far but I'm only seeing the Target exclusive as the movie figure and that's only a remake of the original Legends HULK... LOVE the gray HULK, hopefully there'll be a green variant of that one.

 

[bluedragon77]

meh they dont look that great.. the iron man figure next to him compared to the hulk is a strong contrast to the quality..

 

[ironwez20]

ill still get them but i just dont get why we have a short hulk, i mean didnt we just get through this with spidey 3, make hulk bigger then my iron monger fig i mean c on hasbro.

 

[Spade]

I'm not buying this, even though I am a collector. I still have two pristine Hulk statues that are going to require an equal in quality to put next to them.

 

[Nivek]

I'm not buying this, even though I am a collector. I still have two pristine Hulk statues that are going to require an equal in quality to put next to them.

Thats where I'm at. I refuse to put these figures on the same stand with my good figures with something that looks like it came from a Marvel Toy line around 1989. The drop in quality between the Hulk line and the Iron Man movie line is inexcusable.

 

[The Hulk]

You guys complain about Low Quality, but still buy it. Funny.

i have never complained about any of the new hulk toys. i dont have a problem with them at all. sure, i have better hulks, but i also have much worse. if its hulk ill get it and im happy with these figures. there is nothing wrong with any of the sculpts for hulk, all he needs is a better paint job, which ill be doing to the best looking sculpts.